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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest by Norman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2010Tor · 208 pages · 9780765358714
- Paperback · English · 2007Tor · 178 pages · 9780765319111
- Hardcover · English · 2006Cemetery Dance Publications · 172 pages · 9781587671470
TeenagersFictionCountry lifeTeenage boysHalloweenSmall citiesFantasy fictionMidwest fiction